CMD+D versus CMD+1, or CMD+OPT+1, or CMD+2, or… you get the point. Writer is for people that just want to open something and write. I paid $17.99 for an app that has no preferences, forces one font and one color on me and doesn’t even show me spelling errors while I type! Yet, I am perfectly happy with my purchase.īyword is for people that know they want to do all their writing in one app. Writer takes that thought process to the next plateau and does a really good job of doing so. It’s something that Hog Bay got right the first time with Writeroom - don’t bother with features, make the main feature the lack of features.
#IA WRITER IOS FULL#
The difference is full featured versus focus. Want it to be a different color? Too bad. There is not a single thing you can change about Writer. Not to mention Byword doesn’t “lock” into focus mode nearly as well as Writer. Allowing you to pick what you see in “focus mode” is nice on a bullet point feature list, but in practice it is far too much choice.
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Writer has zero preferences and while Byword has limited preferences it has far too many options. The difference between Writer and Byword is very, very significant.
#IA WRITER IOS PLUS#
I am going to touch more on this mode later, but for now let’s just say that focus mode, plus fullscreen makes for a very, well, focused writing environment. It is a mode that fades out all other text except for the current sentence you are working on. What *is* different is the focus mode, which as far as I can tell is only available in ByWord and Writer for the iPad. In this respect Writer is nothing new, rather just a new take on a classic app category. Of course many of you will note that apps like (), () (long time favorite of mine), () and many more have offered the “focused-by-way-of-fullscreen-mode” long before Writer came out. When I immediately have a connection with an app I know there is far more than meets the eye - this is very much the case with Writer. (Not the lack of typos, just caught me in one of my better moods.) Usually I cannot post those stream of conscious thoughts because they are laden with curse words and typos - that to me was most telling about Writer. Lofty words for having just played with the app for a few moments of time. >This falls in the category of apps that is made by people who actually use the product - in this case - writers.
#IA WRITER IOS MAC#
It is a $17.99 Mac app, available in the Mac App Store - setting the bar high for the “focused-writing-app” category. >This is a test to see how much, or how little I hate iA Writer for the Mac. Here’s my first (unedited) stream of conscious thoughts on iA Writer for Mac: More often it is another text file that lies in a wasteland of old text snippets in Dropbox.
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Typically I open up a new document and just start writing stream of conscious thoughts about the app, once I am done those thoughts sometimes become reworked and interweaved into whatever I may write about the app. I am constantly testing different text editors on all sorts of platforms and because of this I have a standard way of testing these apps. That’s what I did before iA Writer came out and before we get into what I am doing now (and what I think I will continue doing) let’s take a look at iA Writer for the Mac. I did this all with the occasional post written in Notesy or iA Writer on my iPad when my Mac wasn’t convenient to use. Since OmniOutliner came out I began outlining posts on my iPad, tossing that outline into TextMate and writing and editing in TextMate. When I open TextMate I know it is time to write.
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To give you a very short synopsis, iA Writer may once again make me rethink the way I write and that’s a good thing.Ĭurrently I write everything in TextMate on my Mac, this was a conscious decision I made to standardize my writing environment. This app is so very basic and simple, yet so very interesting that I find myself both struggling to describe what makes the app good and having to hold back praise of the app at the same time. I have long been a fan of their iPad version and was really excited to see what they could do with the Mac version. Writer is in every way, shape and form, an exercise in minimalism and focus. The latest app from Information Architects, (), has been highly anticipated since iA launched their incredibly popular iA Writer app on the iPad.